All Episodes

ruby and roland by faith sullivan

season nineteen theme and reading list

sara levine interview (author of treasure island!!!, the hitch)

the hitch by sara levine

treasure island!!! by sara levine

short dark oracles by sara levine

season eighteen theme and reading list

from hell by alan moore

the poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver

i love dick by chris kraus

the atlas by william t. vollmann

sabbath's theater by philip roth

notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin

trainspotting by irvine welsh

all the pretty horses by cormac mccarthy

mao ii by don delillo

vineland by thomas pynchon

season seventeen theme and reading list

the demon by hubert selby, jr.

the sound and the fury by william faulkner

season sixteen theme and reading list

danielle chelosky interview (author of cheat, show me your face, pregaming grief, baby bruise, female loneliness epidemic)

baby bruise and female loneliness epidemic by danielle chelosky

pregaming grief by danielle chelosky

cheat and show me your face by danielle chelosky

season fifteen theme and reading list

ohio by stephen markley

outside in by doug cooper

omensetter's luck by william gass

the bluest eye by toni morrison

season fourteen theme and reading list

open water by caleb azumah nelson

a man asleep by georges perec

the night circus by erin morgenstern

the diver's clothes lie empty by vendela vida

how like a god by rex stout

the malady of death by marguerite duras

suicide by édouard levé

bright lights, big city by jay mcinerney

if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino

season thirteen theme and reading list

blake butler interview (author of 300,000,000, aannex, void corporation, uxa.gov)

uxa.gov by blake butler

void corporation by blake butler

aannex by blake butler

300,000,000 by blake butler

season twelve theme and reading list

moby dick by herman melville

season eleven theme and reading list

flee by evan dara

radio free vermont by bill mckibben

the shame by makenna goodman

season ten theme and reading list

drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk

stephen markley interview (author of the deluge)

the deluge by stephen markley

the man with the compound eyes by wu ming-yi

jeff wood interview (author of the glacier)

the glacier by jeff wood

fever dream by samanta schweblin

deb olin unferth interview (author of barn 8)

barn 8 by deb olin unferth

something new under the sun by alexandra kleeman

the overstory by richard powers

land of milk and honey by c. pam zhang

season nine theme and reading list

david connerley nahm interview (author of ancient oceans of central kentucky)

ancient oceans of central kentucky by david connerley nahm

the vine that ate the south by j.d. wilkes

season eight theme and reading list

ragnarok by walter simonson

prison pit by johnny ryan

kingdom come by mark waid, alex ross

asterios polyp by david mazzucchelli

this one summer by mariko tamaki, jillian tamaki

bitter root by david f. walker, chuck brown, sanford greene

ann nocenti interview (author of the seeds)

the seeds by ann nocenti, david aja

no longer human by junji ito

marcos martin interview (illustrator of the private eye)

the private eye by brian k. vaughan, marcos martin, muntsa vicente

gender queer by maia kobabe

coyote doggirl by lisa hanawalt

understanding comics by scott mccloud + season seven theme and reading list

sunburn by laura lippman

the book of unknown americans by cristina henríquez

fight club by chuck palahniuk

season six theme and reading list

infinite jest by david foster wallace

nightbitch by rachel yoder

crying in h mart by michelle zauner

the raw shark texts by steven hall

project hail mary by andy weir

blood and guts in high school by kathy acker

memory by donald e. westlake

speedboat by renata adler

underworld by don delillo

the zone of interest by martin amis

season five theme and reading list

a confederacy of dunces by john kennedy toole

all the king's men by robert penn warren

the moviegoer by walker percy

season four theme and reading list

fake accounts by lauren oyler

we had to remove this post by hanna bervoets

neuromancer by william gibson

things have gotten worse since we last spoke by eric larocca

allie rowbottom interview (author of aesthetica)

aesthetica by allie rowbottom

no one is talking about this by patricia lockwood

snow crash by neal stephenson

17776 by jon bois

liveblog by megan boyle

the novelist by jordan castro

fernando sdrigotti interview (author of shitstorm)

shitstorm by fernando sdrigotti

b.r. yeager interview (author of amygdalatropolis)

amygdalatropolis by b.r. yeager

darcie wilder interview (author of literally show me a healthy person)

adam levin interview (author of the instructions and mount chicago)

mount chicago by adam levin

katie runde interview (author of the shore)

the shore by katie runde

beth morgan interview (author of a touch of jen)

a touch of jen by beth morgan

season three theme and reading list

bud smith interview (author of teenager)

teenager by bud smith

either/or by elif batuman

the idiot by elif batuman

the instructions by adam levin

real life by brandon taylor

college novel by blake middleton (+ author interview)

sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy

devil house by john darnielle

the secret history by donna tartt

loner by teddy wayne

end zone by don delillo

giles goat-boy by john barth

my education by susan choi

the virgins by pamela erens

the nickel boys by colson whitehead

the art of fielding by chad harbach

prep by curtis sittenfeld

the bell jar by sylvia plath

season two theme and reading list

never let me go by kazuo ishiguro

open city by teju cole

ducks, newburyport by lucy ellmann

any man by amber tamblyn

colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage by haruki murakami

simon birch (1998) (bonus episode)

a prayer for owen meany by john irving

memories of my father watching tv by curtis white

you shall know our velocity! (previously re-titled as sacrament) by dave eggers

pizza girl by jean kyoung frazier

death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh

introducing how to win the lottery